If you haven't gotten your ticket to the Soundgarden reunion show Friday -- sorry, sold out. But you can live the Soundgarden reunion experience through music writer Piet Levy's preview of the show here.

A modernist home nestled into Wisconsin’s driftless region, a pragmatic fix for a 1960s dorm building, a commercial building with a big heart and a clever disguise for an old power plant tank are among the architectural projects that will be recognized Thursday by the AIA Wisconsin, the state’s society of the American Institute of Architects.

During the madness that is the South by Southwest Music Conference in March, where thousands of bands descend upon Austin, Texas hoping to get discovered and advance their careers, I sought temporary refuge in the living room of singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez. | May 8, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Many of Jane Austen's contemporary readers consider her magical. Mary Robinette Kowal went one step further and made her so.

Jane Ellsworth, the Austen-inspired heroine of three Kowal novels to date, lives the kind of British Regency era life an Austen character might have, with a delightful exception: She's a glamourist, a professional magician who creates illusions by manipulating strands of the ether, that mysterious medium people once thought filled the air. | May 8, 2013»Read Full Article

An attempt by the Walt Disney Co. to trademark "Día de los Muertos" drew such a loud protest that the company has dropped its plans to trademark the name, The Los Angeles Times reports.

The company had filed an application with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for "Día de los Muertos," including applications pretaining to toys, cereals and jewelry, the newspaper says. That was in anticipation of a movie that Disney-Pixar is developing that features the popular Mexican holiday, a Disney spokesman said. | May 8, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(3)

When Fall Out Boy went on hiatus in 2009, drummer Andy Hurley returned to his Milwaukee home, not sure what he should do with himself.

"I was really depressed for a while," said the 32-year-old Menomonee Falls native. "In a record cycle, we would have the next year to year and a half planned. You become institutionalized to that way of life. Life is so structured, and then you have nothing." | May 8, 2013»Read Full Article(5)

The notion that marketing forces have invaded the temples of art has long been a fait accompli. The line between art and promotion is too often too hard to locate, and the art world has plenty of controversies to show for it.

The Roman Candle Pizzeria, which has three restaurants in Madison, Middleton and Fitchburg, will open its first Milwaukee-area location in Whitefish Bay in autumn.

The restaurant is projected to open in late September or in October at 133 E. Silver Spring Drive, in part of what formerly was Peabody's Interiors, said owner Brewer Stouffer. | May 8, 2013»Read Full Blog Post